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Mr. Trump, you would've been lucky to have Dan Davis on your team

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Trump and the viable road to peace in Ukraine

Hard truths about the Trump-Zelensky-Vance Oval Office blow-up

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Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

Does the US military even know why it's bombing Yemen?

The war over war with Iran has just begun

What awaits Marco Rubio in the Caribbean

German leaders miscalculated popular will for war spending

Steve Witkoff
Middle East

Can Trump wait for a deal with Iran?

His special envoy Steve Witkoff has mediated the president's frustrations but Israel could be a wild card

Marine Le Pen
Europe

What happens to EU's anti-war bloc without Marine Le Pen?

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Sudan
Africa

Saudi Arabia chooses sides in Sudan's civil war

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Middle East

Can Bernie stop billions in new US weapons going to Israel?

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on
North America

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth
Europe

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

Sens. Paul and Merkley to Trump: Are we 'stumbling' into another war?
QiOSK

Sens. Paul and Merkley to Trump: Are we 'stumbling' into another war?

Bipartisan letter questions Constitutionality of US airstrikes, their effect, and whether this is a prelude to bombing Iran

Is US bombing Somalia just because it can?

Macron fails to get Europe to send troops to Ukraine

Massie interview: Houthi strikes 'not America First'

Will EU stand in the way of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire?

Asia-Pacific

Lai Ching-te Taiwan China

Taiwan's president turns up heat against China — way up.

Rodrigo Duterte

How the US bankrolled Duterte's alleged crimes against humanity

Jeyhun Bayramov Ararat Mirzoyan

Too optimistic? Azerbaijan-Armenia peace deal looms at last

Kim Jong Un reminds Trump they have unfinished business

Kim Jong Un reminds Trump they have unfinished business

Middle east

Steve Witkoff

Can Trump wait for a deal with Iran?

His special envoy Steve Witkoff has mediated the president's frustrations but Israel could be a wild card

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

Ukraine could become 'dysfunctional ward' of Westplay icon

Ukraine could become 'dysfunctional ward' of West

Washington Politics

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

Wall Street Stock Exchange

Emergency! Trump's use of extraordinary powers for tariffs

Donald Trump Miriam Adelson

The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

Chas Freeman

16 yrs ago, Chas Freeman was smeared out of a job at DNI, too

Africa

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Sudan

Saudi Arabia chooses sides in Sudan's civil war

Trump tasks first time envoy with the most complex Africa conflict

M23 & Rwanda are trying to redraw the map and it's all about to blow

Nigeria’s war on Boko Haram has more than a USAID problem

Latin America

Celso Amorim Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

How Brazil will dance with Trump's America

Trump's Latin American sticks could end up stuck in his spokes

Lobbyists pushing disastrous 'Plan Ecuador' for struggling president

Grenell vs. Rubio: Team Trump's competing Latin America visions

Europe

Marine Le Pen

What happens to EU's anti-war bloc without Marine Le Pen?

German leaders miscalculated popular will for war spending

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Even if the war ended tomorrow, Ukraine could end up broke by 2026

north america

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

What awaits Marco Rubio in the Caribbean

Haiti's crisis deepens as foreign troops struggle to curb violence

Trumponomics: Global South is girding for tariffs — or not

Military Industrial Complex

Musk Hegseth

DOGE wants to cut the Pentagon — by 0.07%

His recently announced meager $580m reduction is just an exercise in reshuffling

Media

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Donald Trump Miriam Adelson

The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria, stuck somewhere in 1950 or 1995, is wrong again

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And the Oscar goes to ... the Pentagon!

Global Crises

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Does Vance’s free speech defense in Munich not apply here?

The vice president scolded Europe for ideological censorship, warning of the ‘threat within.’ Time we look in the mirror.